Originally posted by PackRat:
My mom sent me this email.

REMEMBER 1957?

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(11) "I never thought I'd see the day all our kitchen appliances would be
electric. They are even making electric typewriters now"





Someone who lived in a closet theoretically could have said this in 1957, but electric typewriters had been invented about a half century earlier and had been available since the early 1920's.

That would be roughly the equivalent of someone in the year 2012 saying, "Someone is actually making a computer that a person can purchase and use right in his own home".